Lanfranco Aceti

About Lanfranco Aceti

Lanfranco Aceti is known for his social activism and extensive career as an artist, curator, and academic. He is a visiting professor and research affiliate at ACT @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and professor and director of the Arts Administration Program at Boston University. He is the founder of The Studium: Lanfranco Aceti Inc., the founder and Director of OCR (Operational and Curatorial Research in Contemporary Art, Design, Science and Technology), and founder and Director of MoCC (Museum of Contemporary Cuts).

A MUSEUM, A BLACK SHEEP AND A DEAD ROOSTER

If you are in Germany, in Cologne, Monday September 19, 2016 please join us @ 11:30am for this workshop titled: A Museum, A Black Sheep and a Dead Rooster: Artistic and Curatorial Displaced Practices. The workshop - supported, hosted and organized by Mischa Kuball, Professor for Public Art at the KHM/Academy of Media Arts, Cologne/D - is free and open to all. There are only

A MUSEUM, A BLACK SHEEP AND A DEAD ROOSTER2018-02-06T18:37:13+00:00

SOCIAL-IST

SOCIAL – IST is the title of the new exhibition by the Museum of Contemporary Cuts with artworks by international artist Murat Germen. The exhibition examines the remnants of the social protests of Gezi Park in Istanbul and analyzes questions emerging from the current socio-political developments in Turkey as a reflection of wider international trends. Have the social protests altered the political panorama, creating a stronger

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MICHAELA DAVIES @ V&A

The Museum of Contemporary Cuts is proud to announce two performances by Michaela Davies, Duty and Untitled for Cyborg String Quartet that will take place at the Elytra Filament Pavilion in the John Madejski Garden of the Victoria and Albert Museum. This project titled Compliant was supported by the Museum of Contemporary Cuts, and the Australian Council for the Arts, and made possible by the curatorial effort of Lanfranco Aceti (Director, Arts Administration at

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REMAINS OF A SUMMER BLISS

I am very happy to announce the new exhibition Remains of a Summer Bliss by Bill Balaskas that I am curating at the Kalfayan Galleries, Athens - Thessaloniki, from September 15 to October 15, 2016. The premiere of the show is on September 15 from 20:00 to 22:00 at the Kalfayan Galleries on 11 Haritos Street, Athens. The exhibition will present a new body of

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TOP TWENTY

It is with great pleasure that I have received the news that the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) is one of the top twenty art journals in the world in the Google Scholar Metrics rankings in the Visual Arts category. It feels a great accomplishment after nearly nine years of hard work to see the publication thrive and to be in the company of highly respected

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THE LADY WITH A REVOLUTIONARY PARROT

The Lady with a Revolutionary Parrot is a new work of art by Lanfranco Aceti - part of the series The Fat Cat Was Here. The artwork premiers at Art Athina, International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, and focuses on the processes of enslavement and exploitation of beauty to create contemporary corporate propaganda. The artwork challenges contemporary notions of engagement and questions the role that artists

THE LADY WITH A REVOLUTIONARY PARROT2018-02-06T18:37:16+00:00

THE FAT CAT WAS HERE

The Fat Cat Was Here is the title of a new series of works of art by Lanfranco Aceti. A part of this collection, created expressly for Art Athina, International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, was inspired by contemporary economic and social struggles. Exhibited as part of the platforms projects in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Cuts and commissioned and curated by Artemis Potamianou this new

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THE BODY OF THE PEOPLE

The Body of the People is a media performance that interweaves iconic language and visual imagery into a poetic discourse concerning current socio-political disruptions that will take place Thursday September 29, 2016, from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm at the Old South Meeting House. Created by multimedia artist and educator Jeffrey Baykal-Rollins, with Rex Cadwallader on piano, vocals by Tiffany Jackson, Arti Dixon on drums, and Mike Asetta

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ARCHIVE CRISIS @ ISCP

If you are in New York you could join us at the ISCP Talk, April 12, 2016, 6:30-8pm. Here at the ISCP (1040 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211) will be presented Archive Crisis the new artistic endeavor by Stefanos Tsivopoulos. Archive Crisis is a visual essay in a book form by artist Stefanos Tsivopoulos based on a series of previously unpublished images from Greek (media)

ARCHIVE CRISIS @ ISCP2018-02-06T18:37:17+00:00

MIEKE BAL @ THE SOCIAL

OCR in collaboration with the International Association for Visual Culture, Arts Administration @ Boston University and the Museum of Contemporary Cuts is proud to announce that Professor Mieke Bal will be delivering a keynote for THE SOCIAL - the forthcoming biennial conference of Visual Culture at Boston University. Prof. Mieke Bal has had an illustrious career both as an academic and as an artist, focusing on issues that

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